Chrysti The Wordsmith: Bling - 5

Greetings I'm Christie the wordsmith. The Linguists jargon term phone assist these ya means. The feeling of sound linguist Steven Pinker writes with fullness these certain snippets of vowels and consonants vaguely remind people of something because of the way they are pronounced. Well this is all rather abstract until we bring some examples on stage. There's a whole grouping of fullness Thetic words beginning with a consonant cluster G L that seem to suggest the emission of light glare glimmer glisten glitter gleam and glow. It's as if the g l sound somehow vocally represents a quality of illumination. There's another crew of terms that to me are undeniably fun aesthetic. All began with the consonants f an and all refer to actions and things related to the nose. There's a sneeze a snort snuffle snoot snot sniffle snore snuff and sniff linguist Stephen Pinker in his book The Stuff of Thought writes of these terms many

words with a sound s and have something to do with a nose presumably because you can almost feel your nose wrinkle when you produce it in German. Many nose related words begin with a consonant cluster f c h n Narcan is to snore. She now by and means breathed heavily. She Knopf means head cold while she is to snuffle. From Montana State University in Bozeman. This is Christy the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.